The Abrams Guide to American House Styles

The Abrams Guide to American House Styles
Author: William Morgan
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780810972308

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A tour of the approximately twenty styles of domestic architecture common to the United States identifies and defines each style--including Colonial, Craftsman, Modern, and Deco--providing historical summaries, sample photographs, and regional information. 20,000 first printing.

American House Styles

American House Styles
Author: John Milnes Baker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393034219

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How and where did different architectural styles develop?

The Abrams Guide to Period Styles for Interiors

The Abrams Guide to Period Styles for Interiors
Author: Judith Gura
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2005-10-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780810959149

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A companion volume to The Abrams Guide to American House Styles provides a detailed guide to diverse period styles, describing thirty-two design styles common around the world, including Colonial, Art Deco, and Modern, as well as their history, trademark design elements and characteristics, color palettes, fabric swatches, furnishings, accessories, and more. Architects & Designers Book Club.

The Houses We Live in

The Houses We Live in
Author: Jeffery W. Howe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: 9781571458551

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The Houses We Live In is a guide to the architectural styles of American houses. Highly illustrated with stunning color photographs and drawings to identify key recognition features, it covers a variety of architectural styles from colonial to modern American.

American House Styles: A Concise Guide (Second edition)

American House Styles: A Concise Guide (Second edition)
Author: John Milnes Baker
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2018-07-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1682682250

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“An engaging historical account and an attractive, practical resource.” —Booklist Colonial, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Craftsman—what distinguishes one architectural style from another? This unique book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter. Here, architect John Milnes Baker explains the historical, cultural, and technical influences that shaped each of these styles and many more. Organized in periods, from Early Colonial (1600–1715) to the Modern Movement (1920–60) and beyond, this tour of America’s varied residential architecture is rendered in elevation drawings that precisely illustrate the key characteristics of each style. Nearly 25 years since the original publication of American House Styles, this updated edition includes a new preface and house styles from the mid-1990s to the present—from the rise and fall of the McMansion to energy-efficient, regionally influenced homes. The illustrations, now in color, are more delightful than ever in a new, larger format. This a must-have volume for anyone interested in architecture or adding a bit of style to their home.

A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture

A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture
Author: Carole Rifkind
Publisher: Plume
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Leading urbanist Carole Rifkind takes readers on an illuminating tour through half a century of design in this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated book. From private homes and public housing to museums, religious and educational edifices, shopping centers, malls, and office buildings, the accessible text demonstrates the interplay between form and function, and how the uses of space, mass, materials, and ornament have evolved to produce the structures that surround us today. Rifkind also discusses the development of style and analyzes the contributions of more than two hundred architects, as well as the political and economic forces that influenced their work. Filled with over four hundred photographs and line drawings, A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture is an essential reference for both casual observers and serious scholars. Its in-depth exploration of the postwar intellectual, social, and artistic environment offers a unique perspective on our recent past and the forces that shape our modern landscape.

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)
Author: Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 881
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0375710825

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The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

House Styles in America

House Styles in America
Author: James C. Massey
Publisher: Studio
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: Architectural styles
ISBN:

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"This is a book about American house styles, and they are discussed in twenty-one chapters and illustrated with over 200 color plates and line drawings." "Neither a comprehensive history of American residential architecture nor a compendium of America's "greatest" houses, this fascinating and useful book looks instead at broad trends in domestic building from the first days of European settlement on this continent through the Great Depression and beyond - from saltboxes to split-levels. There are certainly mansions to be found here, for they help to define certain styles. Yet the chief focus is not on grand houses but on typical ones - examples that capture the essence of the everyday rather than the extraordinary."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Architectural Digest at 100

Architectural Digest at 100
Author: Architectural Digest
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1683356470

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A 100-year visual history of the magazine, showcasing the work of top interior designers and architects, and the personal spaces of numerous celebrities. Architectural Digest at 100 celebrates the best from the pages of the international design authority. The editors have delved into the archives and culled years of rich material covering a range of subjects. Ranging freely between present and past, the book features the personal spaces of dozens of private celebrities like Barack and Michelle Obama, David Bowie, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Michael Kors, and Diana Vreeland, and includes the work of top designers and architects like Frank Gehry, David Hicks, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, John Fowler, Renzo Mongiardino, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Elsie de Wolfe. Also included are stunning images from the magazine’s history by photographers such as Bill Cunningham, Horst P. Horst, Simon Upton, Francois Dischinger, Francois Halard, Julius Shulman, and Oberto Gili. “The book is really a survey of how Americans have lived—and how American life has changed—over the past 100 years.” ?Los Angeles Times “A Must-Have Book!” ?Interior Design Magazines “Written in the elevated quality that only the editors of Architectural Digest can master so well, AD at 100: A Century of Style is the world’s newest guide to the best and brightest designs to inspire your next big home project.” ?The Editorialist

Down to Earth

Down to Earth
Author: Lauren Liess
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1683356489

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The designer and author of Habitat “shares how she imbues any space with warmth and energy” in this elevated yet accessible follow-up (MarthaStewart.com). Down to Earth picks up right where Lauren Liess’s critically acclaimed Habitat left off. While Habitat walked readers through the decorating process step-by-step, Liess’s latest title takes a step beyond the basics and invites readers to incorporate the main components of her familiar design aesthetic: nature, easy living, and approachability. With evocative photos and substantive design advice, Down to Earth focuses on creating a lifestyle that inspires creativity and functionality. Throughout the book, Liess shows readers how to incorporate six guiding principles in six unique homes: a new farmhouse, a classic American historical home, a lakeside contemporary house, a modern villa, a turn-of-the-century American Foursquare, and a cedar and glass house on a bluff. While each home has a different architectural style, fingerprints of Liess’s down-to-earth style are evident throughout. “Full of the stunning images you would expect. They will spark your creativity and inspire your own designs. However, the real beauty comes from Lauren showing readers how to create ease in their own homes.” —Ariadne Shoppe “Her style embraces lived-in, vintage-inspired interiors . . . Her philosophy is that if your home is relaxed, then you’re relaxed.” —One Kings Lane